From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Pranjal Shrivastava <praan@google.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
Trond Myklebust <trondmy@kernel.org>,
linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Anna Schumaker <anna@kernel.org>,
Shivaji Kant <shivajikant@google.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 6/7] nfs: Optimize direct I/O to use folios for requests
Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2026 07:00:35 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <akfAgy52s_Gch2KG@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <akevQfFVteCOD6LM@google.com>
On Fri, Jul 03, 2026 at 12:46:58PM +0000, Pranjal Shrivastava wrote:
> Do we have use-cases for a kernel user for direct I/O ? (Just curious to
> know if there's something on the horizon).
Plenty. Basically any storage on file driver, or storage / file system
server: loop, zloop, nvmet, scsi target and nfsd ar the ones I know off
by head.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-07-03 14:00 UTC|newest]
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2026-06-18 14:10 ` [PATCH v2 6/7] nfs: Optimize direct I/O to use folios for requests Christoph Hellwig
2026-06-18 18:20 ` Matthew Wilcox
2026-06-19 12:32 ` Pranjal Shrivastava
2026-06-26 6:56 ` Christoph Hellwig
2026-07-03 12:46 ` Pranjal Shrivastava
2026-07-03 14:00 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
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